Kenya-Jade Pinto
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
- Director
Kenya-Jade Pinto is an Indo-Kenyan-Canadian filmmaker and National Geographic explorer. She grew up chasing crabs on the Kenyan coast, before moving to Alberta's foothills as a teen. Kenya-Jade's hyphenated worldview informs her work, where she focuses on non-fiction and narrative projects that navigate themes of displacement, belonging, and access to justice.
Kenya-Jade has participated in DOC Institute's Breakthrough Program as well as HotDocs' Emerging Filmmaker Program. Her training as a human rights lawyer has deepened her practice as a documentarian on projects like Not Yet Home, Level Justice, and more recently, The Sandbox. She blends her creative eye with thoughtful precision, and most recently supported as an associate producer on Scarborough - all the way to TIFF and beyond.
Kenya-Jade is the filmmaker-in-residence at York University's Refugee Law Lab and is working on directing her first documentary feature.
Kenya-Jade has participated in DOC Institute's Breakthrough Program as well as HotDocs' Emerging Filmmaker Program. Her training as a human rights lawyer has deepened her practice as a documentarian on projects like Not Yet Home, Level Justice, and more recently, The Sandbox. She blends her creative eye with thoughtful precision, and most recently supported as an associate producer on Scarborough - all the way to TIFF and beyond.
Kenya-Jade is the filmmaker-in-residence at York University's Refugee Law Lab and is working on directing her first documentary feature.